Tim, welcome back and please report back your experience. I'm pretty sure
there is a Sony A7 whatever in my future. May well be what replaces the
A7R. Until then I'm using a Sony Nex 7 and Olympus e-5. Bill Barber
In a message dated 9/16/2014 8:49:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
timhughes@xxxxxxxx writes:
First apologies, although I have been an OM list member for ~14 (?) years
,and used to be a fairly active member, I have not been active for a long
while.
I predate the famed Doris Fang!
I recently acquired a Sony A7 to upgrade to full frame,from using OM glass
on a Canyon APS-C.
I really like the small size of the camera and even the largish kit lens
is quite useable,but I want to get an OM-Nex adapter.
I could not find too much in the archives,but maybe I missed the
discussion?
A quick search on ebay found a large number of vendors, with prices
varying from about $7 to $145,most average in the $10-20 range with shipping.
Fotoga seems the most common low cost manufacturer offered.
Pixco also seems common,but the Pixco adapters vary a bit in the detail
design shown in pictures.
Some adapters are tapered on exterior, others are straight with stepped
interior.
Some seem to have some baffling or threading/ridges, to reduce flare,
others do not.
most have OM mount in bright plated brass, a few others dark coated (to
reduce flare?) , (maybe to cut cost with anodized Al finish?)
My previous experience with adapters is ,some of them have rather loose
tolerance, so lens wobbles when locked in place or worse they don't lock
reliably.
Flare is a problem with sensor reflections,so the dull mount may well be
and advantage?
Some of adapters have stop down screws that can be removed,if you want to
use the OM squeeze shutdown tab.
Others have more robust flat metal stop down tab, but it is not obviously
removable?
Here is a list of brands I found,although some are likely rebranded by
seller:
Fotoga
Big-Is,with and without tripod mount
Rainbow imaging
Diplo
Kipon (makes shift ,tripod mount adapters,more expensive)
heaven stores shift adapter (same as Kipon? )
Kindai, very expensive
Pixco ,ADPLO ?
Some pixco have ridged interior reducing flare, but not all?
Roxsen
Phottix from cameta with tripod mount,relatively expensive. Seems to be
relabled cheaper tripod mount adapter sold by others?
Dacheng
paxlycom (CA distributor,has thousands in stock)
ulata
Any recommendations on these or other vendors adapters, or warnings about
ones you have used?
Tim Hughes
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